1968 ::: ARPANET
ARPA awarded the ARPANET contractto BBN.
1972 ::: E-Mail
The first e-mail program was created by Ray Tomlinson of BBN.
1973 ::: Internet Term
First Use of term Internet by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn in paper on Transmission Control Protocol.
1992 ::: WWW
World-Wide Web released by CERN.
1992 ::: Browser
Marc Andreessen and NCSA and the University of Illinois develops a graphical user interface to the WWW, called "Mosaic for X".
1996 :::Netscape & Microsoft
Most Internet traffic is carried by backbones of independent ISPs, including MCI, AT&T, Sprint, UUnet, BBN planet, ANS, and more.
2000 :::Wireless
Fixed wireless, high-speed Internet technology is now seen as a viable alternative to copper and fiber optic lines placed in the ground
2003 :::Instant Messaging
Instant messaging generates five billion messages a day
2005 :::YouTube
YouTube.com launches
2007 :::Google
Most visited website
2011 :::The Cloud
and Cloud Computing
TODAY
Billions of people worldwide use the Internet on a regular basis |